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I!   DAME  TRUELOVE'S  TALUS? 

OR, 

USEFUL  LESSONS 

FOR 

\\  Little  Misses  and  Masters, 

AND    ORNAMENTED 


4 


Appkopriate  engravings. 


PHILADELPHIA; 

PUBLISHED  BY  E.  A*ND  R.  PARKER; 

NO.  178,  MARKET  STREET- 

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DAME  TRUELOVE'S  TALES  ; 

OR, 

USEFUL  LESSONS 

FOR 

Little  Misses  and  Masters, 

AND    ORNAMENIED 
WITH 

APPROPRIATE  ENGRAVINGS. 


PHILADELPHIA: 

FUBLISHED  BY  E.  AND  R.  PARKER, 
NO.  178,  MARKET  STREET. 
J.  R.  A.  Skerrett,  Printer. 


1818. 

Library,  Univ.  \of 
Norrh  Carolina 


The  Hallo 


07V 


THE  BALLOON. 


"  Oh  Harry,  Harry !  pray  come 
here,''  cried  Harriet  G.  to  her  bro- 
ther, who  was  gathering  wild  flow- 
ers at  a  little  distance,  to  make  a  nose- 
gay for  her,  "  do  pray  come,  and  tell 
^  me  what  that  great  thing  is  which  I 
see  in  the  sky," 

Harry  ran  directly  to  see  the 
strange  sight,  but  he  laughed  as  he 
ran  towards  her,  because  he  thought 
it  could  be  nothing  but  a  cloud ;  he 
had  often  seen  clouds  very  oddly 

to 
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on 


THE    BAL100X. 


shaped,  sometimes  like  little  boys 
and  girls,  sometimes  like  trees  and 
houses,  for  he  was  a  very  clever  lit- 
tle boy,  observed  every  thing,  and 
liked  to  be  told  the  meaning  of  what 
he  saw. 

With  all  his  cleverness,  however, 
Master  Harry  was  very  much  sur- 
prised when  his  sister  pointed  at  a 
great  round  thing  mounting  in  the 
air,  with  something  hanging  at  the 
lower  part  of  it,  just  like  their  Papa's 
boat,  which  was  kept  in  the  boat- 
house  near  the  river.  "  What  can  it 
be,  Harriet  ?"  said  he,  "  it  makes  me 
think  of  a  picture  in  one  of  my  little 
books,  where  there  is  a  great  mon- 


THE    BALLOOSf.  0 

strous  bird  flying  away  with  a  poor 
lamb — but  look  !  look  ! — there  are 
two  men  in  that  thing  like  a  boat — 
oh  dear !  and  flags !" 

"  I  am  frightened,"  said  little  Har- 
riet, getting  close  to  her  brother, 
who  was  two  years  older  than  her- 
self— "  suppose  it  were  to  fall  down 
upon  us,  boat  and  men  and  all,  we 
should  be  killed,  Harry ! — but  here 
comes  old  Giles,  perhaps  he  can  tell 
us  what  sort  of  creature  it  is,  which 
is  flying  away  with  the  two  poor 
men." 

They  went  up  to  Giles  directly, 
but  he  could  only  tell  them  that  the 
strange  thing  was  called  a  Balloon, 

A  2 


b  THE    BAIXOON. 

and  that  the  men  in  the  boat  were 
two  very  clever  gentlemen,  who  had 
found  out  the  way  to  make  the  Bal- 
loon go  up  to  the  clouds,  and  even 
to  pass  through  them.  "  How  it  is 
done,"  added  he,  "  I  am  but  a  poor 
labourer,  and  as  you  may  suppose, 
not  learned  enough  to  be  able  to  tell 
you,  nor  would  you  perhaps  under- 
stand me  if  I  could,  but  your  Papa 
will  explain  it  to  you  when  you  are 
older;  all  that  I  can  say  is,  that  if  my 
father  had  had  money  to  put  me  to 
school,  I  do  not  think  it  would  have 
been  thrown  away,  for  I  dearly  love 
books,  Master  Harry,  but  alack-a-day, 
I  have  no  time  for  reading. 


THE    BALLOON. 


"I  have  no  doubt  that  the  two 
gentlemen  gone  up  with  the  Balloon, 
when  they  were  little  boys  like  you, 
spent  the  greatest  part  of  their  time 
in  learning  their  lessons,  and  reading 
such  books  as  were  given  to  them ; 
and  so  they  got  on  from  little  books 
to  large  ones,  till  they  grew  up  to  be 
young  men,  and  then  they  found  out 
this  wonderful  way  of  paying  a  visit 
to  the  clouds.  Who  knows,1  Master 
Harry,  if  you  are  not  an  idle  young 
gentleman,  but  mind  your  lessons 
rather  than  spend  all  your  time  in 
play — who  knows,  I  say,  what  won- 
derful thing  you  may  one  day  find 
out." 


THE    BALXOOIf. 


Harry  was  much  delighted  at  the 
thought  of  being  a  man  of  learning, 
and  as  the  Balloon  was  now  out  of 
sight,  ran  home  to  his  Papa  to  ask  a 
dozen  or  two  of  questions ;  and  lit- 
tle Harriet  was  glad  the  great  crea- 
ture was  gone,  for  she  could  not  help 
being  afraid  that  it  would  fall  upon 
her  head. 


JVztie  Puis 


KIKE-PINS, 


"  Pray,  nurse,"  asked  Mrs.  May- 
nard,  "where  are  the  children?" 

NURSE. 

v.- 

They  are  playing  very  quietly  with 
Master  William's  Nine-pins,  Ma'am ; 
I  shall  go  for  them  by  and  by  to  take 
a  walk — we  shall  go  as  far  as  the  vil- 
lage; that  dear  little  Miss  Mary, 
though  she  is  only  four  years  old, 
has  wrapped  up  her  old  shoes  in  a 


10  NINE-PINS. 

paper,  as  neatly  as  I  could  have  done 
it,  and  is  going  to  take  them  to  Fan- 
ny for  her  little  girl;  you  cannot 
think,  Ma'am,  how  happy  she  is, 
that  you  gave  her  leave  to  do  so  5 
and  Miss  Frances,  who  likes  to  do  as 
her  sister  does,  has  got  her  gift 
ready. — The  dear  creature  wanted 
to  carry  her  coral  necklace  to  Fanny ! 
however,  we  have  found  two  old 
night-caps,  of  which  she  has  also 
made  up  her  little  parcel. 

MRS.  MAYNARD. 

I  am  very  happy  to  hear  that  my 
children  are  so  good,  but  I  am  much 


NINE-PIXS.  11 

afraid  if  William  comes  home,  and 
finds  them  at  play  with  his  Nine- 
pins, there  will  be  sad  work.  I  wish 
he  were  as  good  as  his  sisters,  but  he 
is  so  passionate,  and  so  cross  to  them 
and  to  the  servants,  always  speaking 
in  such  a  rude  manner  to  every  one, 
that  I  am  quite  vexed  to  perceive  it ; 
but  we  must  find  some  way  or  other 
to  break  him  of  these  naughty  tricks. 
A  violent  scream  from  the  girls 
made  their  Mamma  and  nurse  judge 
that  the  rude  boy  was  arrived,  and 
they  hurried  towards  the  spot  where 
they  were  at  play,  fearing  he  might 
hurt  them ;  and  it  was  well  they  did, 
for  he  was  in  such  a  rage  at  their 


12  IflNE-PINS, 

having  dared,  he  said,  to  touch  his 
toys,  that  he  was  beginning  to  beat 
them  with  the  Nine-pins,  and  would 
have  hurt  them  very  much  indeed  if 
he  had  not  been  prevented. 

Mrs.  Maynard  put  all  the  Nine- 
pins into  a  basket,  and  then  took  Wil- 
liam into  the  kitchen,  where  the  cook 
was  preparing  a  large  fire  to  roast  a 
piece  of  beef.  She  then  directed  her 
to  put  all  the  pretty  painted  Nine-pins, 
one  by  one,  between  the  bars  of  the 
grate,  and  the  two  balls  on  the  top ; 
and  this  was  done  whilst  William, 
held  fast  by  a  man  servant,  was  made 
to  look  on,  till  they  were  all  burnt. 


Turn  about -Johnny 


TURN-ABOUT  JOHNNY. 


It  was  a  happy  day  at  *  *  *  for 
all  the  children  when  Turn-about 
Johnny  was  seen  coming  down  the 
hill  into  the  village. — 1  should  not 
say  all  the  children,  for  there  were 
some  among  them  who  had  not  one 
poor  halfpenny  to  lay  out,  and  these 
poor  things  could  only  look  at  his 
basket,  admire  his  painted  Harle- 
quins and  Turn-abouts,  his  Whips, 
penny  Horses,  Tin  Soldiers,  and 
pretty  Pictures  j  and  when  they  had 


14  TURN-ABOUT  JOHNNY. 

looked  till  they  were  tired,  or  were 
pushed  away  by  some  rude  boy  or 
girl  who  had  a  halfpenny  or  a  penny 
piece  to  spend,  whoever  happened  to 
be  present  might  see  by  their  be- 
haviour what  kind  of  children  they 
were.  Some  cried  and  roared,  that 
they  might  have  been  heard  half  a 
mile  off,  rubbing  their  eyes  with  their 
dirty  hands,  till  their  faces  were  full 
as  dirty ;  others  did  not  chuse  to  be 
pushed  away,  but  fought  with  those 
who  pushed  them  ;  but  the  good 
children  knew  that  if  their  parents 
had  had  a  halfpenny  to  spare,  they 
should  have  been  able  to  buy  a  toy 
as  well  as  the  others,  and  if  they 


TURN-ABOUT  JOHNNY.  15 

were  too  poor,  it  would  be  wrong  in 
them  to  desire  it. 

A  good  old  gentleman,  who  hap- 
pened to  be  walking  through  the 
village,  watched  the  behaviour  of  the 
children,  who  surrounded  Johnny's 
basket,  and  after  some  time  observ- 
ed a  quiet  little  boy  and  girl,  who 
were  looking  with  longing  eyes  at  all 
the  pretty  things,  but  bought  nothing, 
whilst  the  others  were  showing  them 
how  many  they  had  bought  arid  were 
going  to  carry  home :  at  length  a 
rude  boy,  giving  each  a  blow  on  the 
back,  pushed  them  away  from  the 
basket,  and  the  poor  little  creatures 
with  tears  in  their  eyes  were  creep- 


16  TURN- ABOUT  JOHNNY. 

ing  slowly  towards  home,  when  he 
asked  them  why  they  were  going 
away  without  buying  a  toy? 

The  gentleman  was  soon  told  the 
reason,  but  they  begged  he  would 
not  think  they  were  crying  about 
the  Toys,  for  they  knew  very  well 
that  their  mother  had  no  money  to 
spare,  she  wanted  all  she  could  get 
to  buy  bread  for  them,  but  they 
could  not  help  crying  because  the 
boy  had  hurt  them. 

The  old  gentleman  was  so  pleased 
with  these  little  children,  that  he 
led  them  one  in  each  hand  back  to 
Turn-about  Johnny,  and  bought  as 
many  toys  for  them  as  they  could 


TURN-ABOUT  JOHNNY.  17 

carry  home,  whither  he  went  with 
them  to  see  their  mother,  gave  her 
some  money  to  buy  meat,  and  was 
kind  to  them  always  from  that 
day. 


INDUSTRIOUS  MARIA. 


Maria  was  very  fond  of  needle- 
work ;  she  was  but  a  very  little  girl ; 
yet  she  could  sew  and  hem  better 
than  many  that  were  much  older,  ( 
and  she  liked  to  do  such  work  as 
wojild  be  of  use,  and  not  snip   up- 
and  cobble  every  bit  of  muslin  and  - 
silk  that  was  given  tclrer?    Maria  j 
had  more  sense;  she  knew  that  it  J 
was  wrong  to  w^aste  any  thing,  and  i#Si 
she  had  a  bit  of  silk  in  her  baske^jftj 
was  ten  chances  to  one  but  fhafrnM 


#  v-#< 


V 


/ndustrwiis Maria, 


< 


INDUSTRIOUS  MARIA.  19 

would  be  enough  to  make  a  pin- 
cushion at  least,  and  that,  some  one 
or  other  would  be  glad  to  have.  She 
very  often  wished  she  could  work 
well  enough  to  make  clothes  for 
poor  children ;  and  her  Mamma  told 
her,  that  if  she  continued  to  improve 
she  might  do  any  kind  of  work  in 
another  year,  and  that  she  should 
have  some  old  cloth  and  make  baby 
linen.  "  Indeed,  Maria,55  said  her 
Mamma,  "  I  think  you  work  well 
enough  now  to  make  a  little  shirt, 
if  I  pin  it  for  you ;  it  is  almost  all 
hemming  and  sewing.55 

"  Dear,   dear  Mamma,"   said  the 
little  girl,  "  how  glad  I  should  be  to 


v 


. 


£0  INDUSTRIOUS  MARIA. 

make  a  baby's  shirt ;  if  you  will  but 
shew  me  how  to  do  it,  I  will  try 
as  much  as  ever  I  can  to  do  it 
well." 

The  little  shirt  was  cut  out,  and 
Maria  with  her  table  before  her, 
her  scissars,  her  pincushion,  and  all 
things  in  order,  went  to  work,  as 
happy  as  a  queen — happier  than 
many  little  girls  who  have  had 
sweetmeats  and  playthings  given 
to  them. 

The  shirt  was  made  in  a  few  days, 
and,  what  is  more,  very  neatly  made 
for  such  a  child ;  and  as  soon  as  it 
was  done  it  was  given  to  Sally  to 
wash  and  iron  it   very  nicely,  and 


INDUSTRIOUS  MARIA.  21 

then  it  was  pinned  up  in  a  paper, 
and  Maria  and  her  Mamma  walked 
to  the  cottage  of  a  poor  woman,  who 
she  knew  would  be  glad  to  have 
it.  Maria  told  her,  that  she  did  not 
think  she  could  work  well  enough 
yet  to  be  able  to  make  a  cap,  but 
that  she  hoped  in  a  short  time  to 
bring  one  for  her  baby. 

The  first  thing  she  did  was  to 
make  a  large  bag,  which  she  called 
her  baby's  bag,  and  in  that  she  put 
every  bit  of  cloth,  muslin,  flannel, 
Syc.  which  might  be  useful ;  and  she 
often  begged  ladies  who  came  to  the 
house  to  give  her  some  old  linen  to 
put  into  her  bag,  so  that  when  she 
b  % 


22  INDUSTRIOUS  MARIA. 

went  to  work  she  had  always  plenty 
of  cloth,  and  as  she  was  never  tired 
of  her  needle,  she  gave  so  much 
baby -linen  to  the  poor  of  the  village, 
that  they  loved  her  and  prayed  for 
blessings  upon  her  as  long  as  they 
lived. 


JANE  PRIMROSE. 


Jane  Primrose  had  the  care  of 
her  mother's  poultry  ;  she  was  not  a 
very  poor  woman,  so  she  told  her 
little  girl  she  should  have  all  the 
money  the  eggs  sold  for,  to  buy  her 
a  new  frock  and  a  straw  bonnet  in 
the  summer,  and  desired  her  to  be 
very  careful  of  them,  and  give  plenty 
of  meat  to  her  hens,  and  to  be  sure 
to  put  all  the  poultry  into  the  hen- 
house at  night,  and  fasten  the  door, 
that  she  might  find  them  safe  in  the 
morning. 


24  JANE  PRIMROSE. 

"The  care  of  these  pretty  little 
creatures  will  be  a  very  good  thing 
for  you,  Jane,"  added  her  mother, 
"  for  I  think  you  are  rather  lazy  in 
the  morning,  and  do  not  much  like 
to  get  up;  though  when  the  sun 
shines  in  at  the  casement  and 
through  the  curtains  of  your  bed,  I 
think  it  is  a  shame  for  you  to  lie 
there  sleeping  and  wasting  your 
time;  I  call  it  wasting  time,  when 
any  one  sleeps  longer  than  need; 
besides,  my  dear,  early  rising  is  good 
for  the  health,  and  a  little  girl  who 
lives  in  a  farm  house,  and  hears  the 
plough-boys  and  the  milk-maids 
moving  at  five  o'clock,  may  surely 


.'< 


JANE  PRIMROSE.  25 

rise  at  six  in  summer  and  seven  in 
winter." 

"  But  why  must  I  rise  early  for  the 
cocks  and  hens?"  Jane  asked.  "I  am 
so  sleepy  in  the  morning  that  I  can- 
not open  my  eyes." — "  It  must  be 
done,  my  dear,"  replied  her  mother, 
or  you  must  give  up  the  care  of 
them  to  your  brother,  for  as  they  go 
to  roost  at  sun  set,  they  like  to  be 
let  out  at  the  first  peep  of  day-light, 
that  they  may  enjoy  the  fresh  air, 
and  search  about  the  barn-door  for 
something  to  eat.  In  a  few  mornings 
you  will  awake  without  being  called, 
and  your  cheeks  will  be  as  rosy  as 
Dorothy's  the  milk-maid." 


26  JANE  PRIMROSE. 

Jane  was  a  good  child,  and  follow- 
ed her  mother's  advice  ;  she  jumped 
up  the  moment  she  was  called, 
though  her  eyes  were  scarcely  open, 
but  before  the  end  of  the  week  she 
awoke  without  being  called,  and 
went  down  to  open  the  door  of  the 
hen-house:  then  she  was  so  amused, 
that  she  would  not  have  suffered  any 
other  person  to  let  the  poultry  out 
on  any  account :  each  tried  to  get 
first;  some  flew  over  her  head,  some 
over  her  shoulders,  and  so  much 
noise  and  bustle  among  them,  that 
Jane  was  quite  delighted. 

Every  thing  went  on  well,  and 
when  the  Summer  came  she  had  so 


JANE  PRIMROSE.  27 

many  shillings  and  sixpences  in  her 
little  bag,  that  she  could  scarcely  be- 
lieve her  own  eyes,  for  she  had 
never  seen  so  much  money  at  one 
time :  but  this  good  little  girl,  instead 
of  thinking  of  herself,  and  her  new 
frock  and  bonnet,  carried  her  bag  to 
her  mother,  and  when  she  put  it  into 
her  hand,  begged  she  would  buy  a 
gown  for  herself,  as  her  Sunday  frock 
and  bonnet  were  still  good,  and  would 
do  very  well  some  time  longer. 

Jane  lost  nothing  by  her  good- 
nature, for  her  mother  bought  her 
the  things  she  had  promised,  and 
moreover  two  pretty  white  hens  to 
add  to  her  stock. 


LITTLE  LAURA, 


There  was  once  a  little  girl  wh© 
lived  with  her  mother  in  a  house  by 
the  road  side ;  it  was  a  very  pretty 
house,  and  it  had  a  flower  garden 
before  it,  and  an  apple  orchard  on 
one  side,  and  a  poultry  yard  and  a 
dairy  on  the  other.  This  little  girl 
was  called  Laura,  and  she  was  a  very 
good  child,  obedient  to  her  parents, 
and  good-natured  and  kind  to  her 
neighbours  and  acquaintances,  so 
that  every  body  loved  and  were  glad 


1ITTXE   LAURA.  29 

to  see  her  at  their  houses  ;  but  where 
she  spent  the  most  of  her  time  was 
at  the  house  of  an  old  lady  who  had 
taken  a  great  liking  to  her,  because 
she  behaved  so  properly  at  church, 
where,  instead  of  gaping  round,  and 
standing  on  tip-toe  to  peep  into  the 
pews,  as  many  children  do,  without 
thinking  of  the  place  they  are  in,  she 
minded  nothing  but  the  clergyman  ; 
and  as  she  had  been  taught  to  know 
when  to  kneel  and  when  to  stand  up, 
she  never  neglected  to  do  so  at  the 
proper  time.  She  often  went  to 
breakfast  with  this  old  lady,  and 
spent  the  whole  day  with  her ;  and 
there  wras  a  pretty  little   summer- 


30  1ITTLE    LAURA. 

house  in  the  garden,  and  she  had  it 
nicely  furnished  with  a  little  table 
and  two  or  three  green  chairs,  and  a 
green  blind  to  shade  it  from  the  sun, 
and  it  was  called  Laura's  own  par- 
lour, and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  (that 
was  the  lady's  name)  ordered  her 
tea-table  to  be  taken  into  the  sum- 
mer-house one  fine  afternoon,  and 
told  Laura  she  intended  to  drink  tea 
with  her ;  so  Laura  was  mistress  of 
the  tea-table  that  day,  and  poured 
out  the  tea,  and  helped  her  friend  to 
some  cake  and  bread  and  butter,  and 
was  as  happy  as  a  queen. 

In  the  Winter  she  had  a  scarlet 
cloak  and  bonnet,  which  made  her 


LITTLE   XAURA.  31 

look  something  like  little  Red  Riding- 
Hood,  and  she  went  to  see  Mrs. 
Martin  almost  every  day,  for  though 
she  could  not  be  so  well  amused  as 
in  Summer,  she  never  neglected  her 
good  friend  who  was  so  kind  to  her ; 
and  if  she  happened  to  be  unwell, 
either  stayed  with  her  to  ring  her 
bell  when  she  wanted  any  thing,  and 
sit  by  her  side,  or  went  two  or  three 
times  a  day  to  know  if  she  were 
better. 

Thus  the  little  Laura  was  the  hap- 
piest child  in  the  world,  and  all  chil- 
dren may  be  happy  if  they  follow 
her  example. 


JUVENILE  BOOKS, 

JUST  PUBLISHED  BY 

E.  If  R.  PARKER, 

t7Vo.  178,  Market  street,  Philadelphia, 
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